The vision in my head was a huge truckload of it in one big pile that you can dive into like scrooge mcduck.

I reached out to the admin and now it's online :)

I'd hook up https://easydmarc.com/ for a couple of months to monitor deliverability, just while you're bedding it in.

I've finished coding this and it's undergoing testing and refinement now.

You didn't just code it with AI, you also wrote all your posts and comments with AI.

Haha, your AI is showing

20 upvotes. That'll do!

I'll be in the next version, scheduled for 1 July.

I can confirm I successfully received the Auth message (twice?!) on piefed.social

There is/was a Firefox extension that mods used which would put a warning on an account that participated in any of those subs. Mods are supposed to look into the nature of that participation before acting on it but of course not many did.

"I told you Mexico would pay for it!"

Having so many accounts is getting kind of ridiculous. Please just use one or two accounts.

Not everyone wants to see so many questions. When those people block you and then you make a new account and ask many questions again with the new one, you create work for all those people who need to block your new account too.

While it is technically possible to write shell scripts that do as much as what you're attempting to, it's not a good idea.

Shell scripts generally don't have the development environment necessary for debugging. You can't pause execution based on a breakpoint and inspect variables, or step through the code line by line to watch the execution flow as it happens. Well, bashdb exists, but it's quite hard to use.

Without proper debugging tooling you're limited to printing stuff out on the screen and trying to figure out what that means. That's ok for short scripts (< 50 lines?) but yours is 700+ lines.

I left Hetzner after the price increase a couple of months ago, expecting that hike not to be the last.

Now I run my own hardware. It feels good to 'own the means of federation' and not rent it!

I was going to suggest Python too but you'll need to be careful to just use functionality that is part of the standard library because once you start pulling in 3rd party packages deployment is much harder and portability seems to be a requirement here. That should be doable with your case.

The free edition of PyCharm is great for debugging.

Yeah it's not great. I could have a PSU blow out any time and it'll take me days to sort it out, probably. I have a spare server (these things are < $100 so why not) but getting it ready for prime time wouldn't be quick either.

Anyway the resiliency of the fediverse is in the network - people can just use another instance for their fix of shitposts until their main comes back.

I've been thinking about auto-unfollow, too. For example if an account hasn't logged in for 6 months they unfollow everyone and leave all communities (but preserve the records of their subscriptions so they can be automatically re-follow/joined if they log in again).

Then that one guy who subscribed to all those anime communities a year ago won't cause your instance to receive anime forever.

A long-time mastodon contributor is shutting down their instance - https://vmst.io/@vmstan/116757564108266599

Small instances close down all the time but in this case it's not just anyone's instance.

This new environment will provide developers with an incentive to find ways to rein in their platform's storage and CPU usage.

A dating pool consisting of 90% sociopathic old white men. Cringe and bizarre.

The next shoe to drop will be when S3 object storage prices double or triple. That'll really thin the herd.